People are often wondering how they could grab videos embedded in flash players on websites, and someone asked me to yesterday.
SO, I remembered that talk from Honey @ DefCON 18 last summer in Vegas (1) about “Ripping media off the wire” that was talking about how online music works, what are the “securities” in place, why they are weak and how to exploit them. It mentioned getting essentially the tool HttpFox and if you want to convert your file from FLV to something else, a converter.
I did put that in application for this video and httpfox gave me the link to the infomercial first (*yawn*) but that was a start, was able to grab it!
03:53:13.000 0.176 681 (7.7M) GET (Cache) video/quicktime http://cdn.adgear.com/astw/assets/741/2225/20110218210645_0.379090031747797_desjardins_soucidelepargne_ok8.mov?videoId=803341163001&lineUpId=&pubId=618566855001&playerId=745466524001&affiliateId=
Was the interesting line, since it had a mimetype corresponding to a video format. Then I noticed that more lines appeared when the real clip shows up :
00:00:28.855 0.091 522 313 GET 200 image/gif http://dstw.adgear.com/interactions/int/p=1474/pm=2232/as=2950/asm=93272/i=1202?AG_R=66868943237144
00:00:28.891 0.009 475 (5704) GET (Cache) application/x-shockwave-flash http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.25.01.02.2011-03-02064508/controllers/FP10StreamingMediaController.swf
00:00:29.271 0.169 807 223 GET 200 text/plain http://goku.brightcove.com/1pix.gif?dcsdat=1299356301604&dcsref=not%20available&playerURL=http%3A//vtele.ca/videos/dumont/l-humanite-devrait-nous-imiter-l-eglise-de-scientologie-au-quebec_25470_25472.php&flashVer=WIN%2010%2C2%2C152%2C32&os=Windows%207&dcssip=&lang=en&affiliateId=&dcsuri=/viewer/video_start&sourceId=618566855001&videoId=803341163001&mem=64944&time=-1&publisherId=618566855001&connectTime=64&playerId=745466524001&playerTag=
00:00:30.449 0.601 557 442 GET 200 application/xml http://rcv-srv43.inplay.tubemogul.com/crossdomain.xml
00:00:31.050 0.332 2047 134 POST 200 application/xml http://rcv-srv43.inplay.tubemogul.com/StreamReceiver/services
I believe the answer is in the bold part, but then I thought my good friend scratchme mentioned some tool for hulu videos that might work for other sites, StreamTransport (2). That was pretty straightforward, download, install, execute, paste the webpage link, the it links to the 2 available clips in that page, the ad and the real one, just had to select the second one and click download, voilà!
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References :
1- http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Honey/DEFCON-18-Honey-Ripping-Media.pdf
2- scratchme from ##windows-pro on Freenode (IRC) — http://www.streamtransport.com/
